But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.

I don't buy into the idea that you're not supposed to rock & roll after a certain date. Maybe I should be in Bellevue, but I'm just having a good time.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.